5th Avenue

5th Avenue is a popular Destination for Shopping Between 49th Street and 60th Street, is lined with prestigious boutiques and flagship stores and is consistently ranked among the most expensive shopping streets in the world.

Kenneth Cole - more info »
610 5th Avenue, New York, NY
(212) 373-5800 ‎
11 reviews
"I prefer the latter and if you shop during end of season sales you will find that shopping on 5th Avenue is actually cheaper than shopping at the mall ..." - yelp.com

5th Ave Club - more info »
3 West 51st Street, New York, NY
(212) 582-5454 ‎
24 reviews
"Each member of the hospitality staff is dedicated to complete customer satisfaction. The Fifth Avenue Club Hotel is convenient to fine dining, shopping and ..." - world-discount-hotels.com

Abercrombie & Fitch (Flagship) - more info »
720 5th Ave, New York
(212) 306-0936 ‎
121 reviews
"They are jacking up the price of the 5th avenue store in order to get the Euros and Tourist to pay a premium for shopping on 5th Ave. Seriously A&F get over ..." - yelp.com

Henri Bendel Store - more info »
712 5th Avenue, NY
(212) 247-1100 ‎
264 reviews
"If you've been to the 5th Avenue store, you may be somewhat disappointed since this is one-twentieth of the size of the multi-leveled mecca of New York shopping" - yelp.com

zara - more info »
689 5th Ave, New York
(212) 371-2417 ‎
Category: Shopping Center
36 reviews
"After shopping all over Fifth Avenue and seeing the high prices of most of the stores, Zara was a welcome relief. The clothing and decor of this store were ..." - insiderpages.com

Takashimaya - more info »
693 5th Ave, New York
(212) 350-0111 ‎
239 reviews
"The store is small, so it is very easy to navigate, plus the Teabox Cafe on the bottom floor has the best lunch on 5th Avenue for a day of shopping ..." - insiderpages.com

Faconnable Boutique - more info »
636 5th Avenue, NY
(212) 319-0111 ‎
14 reviews
"The sales associates are friendly and suggestive without being pushy or rude. This should definitely be your first stop along the 5th/Madison Ave shopping mecca" - citysearch.com

Lindt Chocolate Shop - more info »
692 5th Avenue, New York, NY
(212) 582-3047 ‎
23 reviews
"If you just need a chocolate fix from a long day shopping on 5th avenue, the staff will probably indulge you with a complimentary treat as you browse." - yelp.com

Just Cavalli Fifth Avenue - more info »
665 5th Avenue, New York, NY
(212) 888-4333 ‎
20 reviews
"The price tag for the clothes is still alittle expensive but more reasonable

5th Avenue is a major thoroughfare in the center of the borough of Manhattan in New York City, USA. The section of 5th Avenue that crosses Midtown Manhattan, especially that between 49th Street and 60th Street, is lined with prestigious shops and is consistently ranked among the most expensive shopping streets in the world. The "most expensive street in the world" nickname changes depending on currency fluctuations and local economic conditions from year to year. For several years starting in the mid-1990s, the shopping district between 49th and 57th Streets was ranked as having the world's most expensive retail spaces on a cost per square foot basis. In 2008, Forbes magazine ranked 5th Avenue as being the most expensive street in the world.

5th Avenue starts at Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village and runs northwards through the heart of Midtown, along the eastern side of Central Park, where it forms the boundary of the Upper East Side and through Harlem, where it terminates at the Harlem River at 142nd Street. Traffic crosses the river on the Madison Avenue Bridge. 5th Avenue serves as the dividing line for house numbering in Manhattan. It separates, for example, East Fifty-ninth Street from West Fifty-ninth Street. From this zero point for street addresses, numbers increase in both directions as one moves away from 5th Avenue, with 1 West Fifty-ninth Street on the corner at 5th Avenue, and 300 West Fifty-ninth Street located three blocks to the west of it.

Upper 5th Avenue:
By the turn of the twentieth century, the very rich of New York had migrated to the stretch of 5th Avenue between Fifty-ninth Street and Ninety-sixth Street, the stretch where Fifth Avenue faces Central Park. Entries to the park include Inventor's Gate at Seventy-second Street, which gave access to the park's carriage drives, and Engineer's Gate at Ninetieth Street, used by equestrians.

A 5th Avenue milestone for came in 1916, when the grand corner mansion at Seventy-second Street and 5th Avenue that James A. Burden had erected as recently as 1893 was demolished to make way for a grand apartment house, 907 5th Avenue, of twelve stories around a central court, with two apartments to a floor, its strong cornice above the fourth floor, just at the eaves height of its neighbors, was intended to soften its presence. This was the first such replacement.

In January 1922, the city reacted to complaints about the ongoing replacement of 5th Avenue's mansions by apartment buildings by restricting the height of future structures to 75 feet, about half the height of a ten story apartment building. Architect J. E. R. Carpenter brought suit, and won a verdict overturning the height restriction in 1923. Carpenter argued that "the avenue would be greatly improved in appearance when deluxe apartments would replace the old-style mansions.

This 5th Avenue area contains many highly notable apartment buildings, including 810 5th Avenue and the Park Cinq, many of them built in the 1920s by architects such as Rosario Candela and J. E. R. Carpenter. A very few post-World War II structures break the unified limestone frontage, notably the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum between Eighty-eighth and Eighty-ninth Streets.